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PSC provides an integrated array of high performance computing and communications products and related services to their users, including supercomputing-class hardware, software, mass storage systems, file storage areas, consulting services, and training. Information on all of these resources is available on the PSC web pages or by contacting the PSC hotline.
Hardware
PSC operates several supercomputing-class machines:
bigben, a Cray XT3 MPP machine with 2068 compute nodes and 4136 processors.
pople, an SGI Altix SMP machine with 768 cores and 1.5 Tbytes of shared memory.
salk, an SGI Altix SMP machine with 144 cores and 288 Gbytes of shared memory, dedicated to biomedical research.
bioinformatics and codon, front ends to an Opteron cluster. They provide access to a set of dual processor 1.4 Ghz AMD Opteron machines with 4 Gbytes of memory per machine. The cluster is used for biomedical research, primarily sequence analysis.
A front end machine running Linux provides access to the supercomputers. Some production software packages are also installed on the front end.
Software
The most popular software packages are available for computational chemistry, engineering, biomedical databases and sequence analysis, neural sciences and materials science. You can search for the package you need by software category or by computing system, or you can scan the complete alphabetical listing.
We can also acquire other software if requested and if versions are available for our computers.
Mass Storage and Archival Services
Golem is PSC's file archival system. Golem is a combination tape-and-disk system, with a total capacity of 2 Pbytes.
High speed data links transport data between our major computing platforms and golem.
We can also provide storage for externally generated data. Contact the Corporate Relations Office for more information.
File Repositories and File Systems
As a file repository PSC users have access to the PSC File ARchival system, FAR, on each PSC production platform. In addition, each production platform has its own local file systems. Please consult the documentation for each platform for information on the file systems available on that machine.
Consulting Services
Our consulting staff can help with technical problems, such as code optimization or even advice on configuring and supporting your own systems.
Individual one-on-one consulting is available to provide support for all phases of problem evolution from inception to final results. This can include software recommendations, formulation of the problem, or optimization of a single processor performance, as well as communications support.
PSC's hotline is manned by experienced consultants who can answer technical questions about all aspects of the center. Follow-up within one working day to electronic mail questions is guaranteed.
Training
The Education and Training group offers workshops on parallel computing topics. Upon the request of corporate clients, they recently developed a module on "Recommended Programming Practices", which teaches engineers and researchers a standards-based, best-practices approach to software engineering.
The NRBSC gives workshops on biomedical computing.
The Advanced Systems group conducts training sessions on setting up and administering computing systems.
These classes can be held at PSC or at your location.
Information
All of our important user information is online. If you are unable to find what you are looking for, you can search our web pages or take a look at the site map. Topics of interest to PSC users include:
User policies
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Grant information
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PSC User Guide
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News & posts
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Other places to get help
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